Category: Google Apps

Workflow overview (detailed below) The teacher creates an assignment and allows onCampus (MyGPS) submissions. Students open the assignment in MyGPS and download any attachments. Completed assignments are saved in Google Drive or the Photos app. Students return to MyGPS, click on the assignment name, and submit their assignment by attaching it from Google Drive or […]

Create a Google shared folder for your students. Click here for directions. Students move video into the shared Google Drive folder. create videos in an app. Save to Photos app. From Photos, tap the share button, then tap Drive. In the window that opens, tap Upload. The video will upload to the student’s drive account. Drag and drop […]

How to create folders in Google Drive Open your Google Drive app (or go to drive.google.com on a laptop) and be sure you are logged in to your GPS account. Click the New button (laptop, top left) or the blue + sign (iPad, bottom right) and select Folder. Title the folder and click Create. […]

After students add their work to a shared Google Drive folder, select list view on the top right Laptop: the name of the file, owner, last modified, and file size. iPad: the name of the file and modified date. Tap the 3 dots icon, then select Details to see student name, etc. Open and comment on student […]

Thank you to Erin Bas for this tip! One of Google’s greatest strengths is that collaborators can work on a document in real time. This can be a problem, however, if you want to provide a Google document to a class for individual or group work. Asking them to make a copy usually ends up […]

If you’re using a Chromebook or the most recent versions of the Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps on your phone or tablet, you can already edit Office files. If you’re using a computer Download the Office Editing for Docs, Sheets & Slides Chrome extension. From Google Drive, double-click any Office file to start editing. The […]

Google Sharing Basics Any type of file can be stored in Google Drive on your computer and online. Non-Google files like Word, Excel, or Powerpoint, can be shared from Google Drive, but the files can not be edited in Drive, either by the user or collaboratively. Microsoft files must be downloaded and edited in the corresponding application. To […]

All GPS students and employees now have a GPS Google Apps account. This account gives you access to Google Drive for online file & media backup (with unlimited storage space!) and Google Apps for Education (now called G Suite) including Docs, Sheets, Slides, YouTube, etc. Google Drive is so much more than online storage. It provides the following 3 major features as part of […]

All GPS students and employees have access to a GPS Google Apps account. If you are logging into your GPS Google Drive account for the first time, you will connect through MyGPS. For more information on Google Drive and G Suite for Education, click here. How to create your GPS Google Apps account Open Chrome (add the Chrome browser here) and […]